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Brothers in Arms: Remembering Brothers Buried Side by Side in American World War II Cemeteries by Kevin M Callahan
RRP: $45.15$32.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Benjamin Franklin Award (Bill Fisher Award - Nonfiction) 2021.Book InformationISBN 9780578468853Author Kevin M CallahanFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint... -
Blood on the Snow: The Carpathian Winter War of 1915 by Graydon A. Tunstall 9780700618583
RRP: $42.51$35.99The Carpathian campaign of 1915, described by some as the 'Stalingrad of the First World War', engaged the million-man armies of Austria-Hungary and Russia in fierce winter combat that drove them to the brink of annihilation. Habsburg forces fought to... -
Waffen-SS Panzers: Eastern Front by Peter Darman 9781781212660
RRP: $15.63$14.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781212660Author Peter DarmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Brown Bear Books LtdPublisher Brown Bear Books LtdWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm)... -
From the Riviera to the Rhine: Us Sixth Army Group August 1944-February 1945 by Simon Forty 9781612006239
$28.47Two months after D-Day, just as the battle of Normandy was reaching its climax, with all eyes on the Falaise Pocket, the Allies unleashed the second invasion of France not in the Pas de Calais but the French Riviera. Immaculately planned, effectively... -
The Bomb by Howard Zinn 9780872865099
RRP: $12.89$11.49As a World War II combat soldier, Howard Zinn took part in the aerial bombing of Royan, France. Two decades later, he was invited to visit Hiroshima and meet survivors of the atomic attack. In this short and powerful book, Zinn offers his deep personal... -
Panzerkorps Gro?deutschland by Helmuth Spaeter
RRP: $36.11$24.02Photo history of one of the most elite fighting units in WWII by one of its former members. Includes listing of Knight's Cross Winners.Book InformationISBN 9780887402456Author Helmuth SpaeterFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Schiffer Publishing... -
Ripcord: Screaming Eagles Under Siege, Vietnam 1970 by Keith W. Nolan 9780891418092
$8.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891418092Author Keith W. NolanFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio Press -
The African American Experience during World War II by Neil A. Wynn 9781442210318
RRP: $38.70$34.42Drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and research, Neil A. Wynn combines narrative history and primary sources as he locates the World War II years within the long-term struggle for African Americans' equal rights. It is now widely accepted that... -
Recollections from the Ranks: Three Russian Soldiers’ Autobiographies from the Napoleonic Wars by Darrin Boland 9781912174188
RRP: $21.87$20.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912174188Author Darrin BolandFormat HardbackPage Count 134Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Divided on D-Day: How Conflicts and Rivalries Jeopardized the Allied Victory at Normandy by Edward E. Gordon 9781633883192
RRP: $25.79$22.41Two historians--one American and one British--examine the ways in which rivalries and personality conflicts among Allied commanders adversely affected the D-Day invasion and its aftermath. In anticipation of the 75th anniversary of D-Day comes this... -
The Global Infrastructure of the Special Operations Executive Derwin Gregory (Bishop Grosseteste University, UK) 9781032168074
RRP: $51.59$45.58During the Second World War, the British government established the Special Operations Executive (SOE) for the purpose of coordinating 'all action, by way of subversion and sabotage, against the enemy overseas'. Although the overseas operations of this... -
Air War Over North Vietnam: Operation Rolling Thunder, 1965 1968 by Stephen Emerson 9781526708229
$20.16In early 1965 the United States unleashed the largest sustained aerial bombing campaign since World War II, against North Vietnam. Through an ever-escalating onslaught of destruction, Operation Rolling Thunder intended to signal America's unwavering... -
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War by Fred Kaplan
RRP: $25.79$16.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476763262Author Fred KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm *... -
Project Eagle: The Top-Secret OSS Operation That Sent Polish Spies behind Enemy Lines in World War II by John S. Micgiel 9780811775410
RRP: $32.25$26.99After the Battle of the Bulge—which had begun with a German attack that American intelligence failed to anticipate—the Office of Strategic Service (OSS), forerunner of the CIA, revamped its intelligence operations in Europe. Confronted with staff... -
Reporting War: How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, Torture and Death to Cover World War II by Ray Moseley 9780300224665
RRP: $29.03$24.96Luminary journalists Ed Murrow, Martha Gellhorn, Walter Cronkite, and Clare Hollingworth were among the young reporters who chronicled World War II's daily horrors and triumphs for Western readers. In this fascinating book, Ray Moseley, himself a former... -
The Hidden Perspective: The Military Conversations 1906-1914 by David Owen 9781908323989
RRP: $16.76$11.73December 1905: Foreign Minister Edward Grey enters into secret talks with the French about sending British forces to their aid in the event of a German attack. The details were only revealed to the Cabinet and Prime Minister in 1911, by which point the... -
The Castaway's War: One Man's Battle against Imperial Japan by Stephen Harding
RRP: $28.38$22.03In the early hours of July 5, 1943, the destroyer USS Strong was hit by a Japanese torpedo. The powerful weapon broke the destroyer's back, killed dozens of sailors, and sparked raging fires. While accompanying ships were able to take off most of ... -
The Welsh Warrior Through the Ages by Jonathan Morgan 9780995531727
RRP: $15.48$11.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995531727Author Jonathan MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Cambria BooksPublisher Cambria PublishingWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Nursing Through Shot and Shell: A Great War Nurse's Story by Christine Smyth 9781399023214
RRP: $16.76$14.13This recently discovered memoir gives an intimate glimpse into the Great War service of Beatrice Hopkinson, a Territorial Forces Nursing Service Sister, who remained steadfastly and true to her profession as she nursed through shot and shell. Dr Vivien... -
Six Silent Men by Gary Linderer 9780804115674
RRP: $10.31$7.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804115674Author Gary LindererFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)... -
Access All Areas by Sara Wheeler 9780865478770
RRP: $29.67$20.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865478770Author Sara WheelerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)... -
Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII by Mary Louise Roberts
RRP: $28.38$27.89Marching across occupied France in 1944, American GI Leroy Stewart had neither death nor glory on his mind: he was worried about his underwear. "I ran into a new problem when we walked," Stewart wrote, "the shorts and I didn't get along. They would crawl... -
Kabul Goes Pop: Music Television Afghanistan by Waleed Akhtar 9781839040931
RRP: $14.18$10.36'Today in Afghanistan there are many important issues that we are facing in our country, and I want us to look at some of these issues. So I am asking you, the audience, to help answer a very important question. Britney or Shakira?' Afghanistan. It's... -
Waterloo: Great Battles by Alan Forrest 9780199663262
RRP: $16.76$14.80Waterloo was the last battle fought by Napoleon and the one which finally ended his imperial dreams. It involved the deployment of huge armies and incurred heavy losses on both sides; for those who fought in it, Dutch and Belgians, Prussians and... -
Victory at Mortain: Stopping Hitler's Panzer Counteroffensive by Mark Reardon
$48.77A powerful German counterattack in Normandy in August 1944 might have been one of the Wehrmacht's great shining moments in the Second World War. The odds were certainly in their favour. Determined to drive the Allies back to the English Channel, elements... -
Kamikaze Attacks of World War II: A Complete History of Japanese Suicide Strikes on American Ships, by Aircraft and Other Means by Robin L. Rielly 9780786473038
$58.48Drawing on U.S. government reports, interrogation reports of Japanese officers, ship action reports and secondary sources, this book details more than 400 kamikaze attacks by Japanese aircraft, manned torpedoes, suicide boats and suicide swimmers... -
Goodbye, Transylvania: A Romanian Waffen-Ss Soldier in WWII by Sigmund Heinz Landau 9780811715829
RRP: $19.29$17.62This rare memoir is the gripping account of a foreigner who served with the Germans on the Eastern Front and provides a vivid, firsthand description of World War II combat. Sigmund Heinz Landau, a Romanian fighting with the Waffen SS, was a participant... -
Monty's Marauders: the 4th & 8th Armoured Brigades in the Second World War by Patrick Delaforce 9781844156306
$31.88When Monty was given Allied command of the D Day landings he wasted no time gathering around him individuals and formations he could trust. Foremost among the latter were two armoured brigades: 4th (Black Desert Rats) and 8th (Red Fox's Mask). Both... -
Combat Ready?: The Eighth U.S. Army on the Eve of the Korean War by Thomas E. Hanson 9781603441674
$63.69In the decades since the "forgotten war' in Korea, conventional wisdom has held that the Eighth Army consisted largely of poorly trained, undisciplined troops who fled in terror from the onslaught of the Communist forces. Now, military historian... -
Yemen in the Shadow of Transition: Pursuing Justice Amid War by Stacey Philbrick Yadav
RRP: $64.50$56.48Responding to a diplomatic stalemate and a catastrophic humanitarian crisis, Yemen's civil actors work every day to build peace in fragmented local communities across the country. This book shows how their efforts relate to longstanding justice demands... -
Normandy's Nightmare War: The French Experience of Nazi Occupation and Allied Bombing 1940-45 by Douglas Boyd 9781526745811
$25.86Famous for Calvados apple brandy and Camembert cheese, Normandy is a green and pleasant land now dotted with thousands of British-owned second homes. Its coastline is also dotted with thousands of indestructible reinforced-concrete bunkers and gun... -
Panzer III at War 1939 - 1945 by Thomas Paul 9781781590409
$21.03With comprehensive captions and text this superb book is the latest in the best selling Images of War Series and the second instalment of the Author's pictorial history of the German Panzers in the Second World War. The Panzer III saw almost continuous... -
Flak in World War II Donald Nijboer 9780811719926
RRP: $38.70$33.08More than half of the U.S.'s aircraft losses in Europe in World War II were due to German antiaircraft artillery, and many of the American aircraft shot down by Luftwaffe fighters had first been driven out of formation by flak and made easy prey for the... -
The Generals' War: Operational Level Command on the Western Front in 1918 by David T. Zabecki
RRP: $30.95$27.40Known as the War to End all Wars and the Great War, World War I introduced new forms of mass destruction and modern technological warfare. When the Bolsheviks pulled Russia out of the war in late 1917, the Germans turned their offensive efforts to the... -
German Paratr: Uniforms, Insignia and Equipment of the Fallschirmjager in World War II by Robert Kurtz
RRP: $82.55$53.79The uniforms and equipment of the elite German Fallschirmjager is the subject of this detailed, illustrated study. Authentic items - smocks, dress tunics, boots, insignia, helmets, visor caps, gloves, knee pads and more - are shown in superb color... -
Photographers of the Third Reich: Images from the Wehrmacht by Paul Garson
RRP: $19.34$12.85Of the millions of German soldiers who went to war, many were armed with their personal cameras and intent on photographically chronicling their Dienstzeit, or military service, via meticulously prepared albums or by turning their photos into postcards... -
Malta: The Last Great Siege 1940-194. by David Wragg 9781526761200
$24.11The strategic importance of Malta sitting astride both the Axis and Allied supply routes in the Mediterranean was obvious to both sides during WW2. As a result the Island became the focal point in a prolonged and dreadful struggle that cost the lives of... -
Army Group North: The Wehrmacht in Russia 1941-1945 by Werner Haupt
RRP: $47.72$30.64After long years of studying sources and literature, Werner Haupt presents the military history of one of the larger theaters of World War II. The completion of the history of "Army Group North" is the result of the author's utilization of all German and... -
French Army in the First World War by Ian Sumner 9781473856196
RRP: $19.34$7.88The French army of the First World War withstood the main force of the German onslaught on the Western Front, but often it is neglected in English histories of the conflict. Now, though, keen interest in the war in general and in the part the French... -
Dreams of a Great Small Nation: The Mutinous Army that Threatened a Revolution, Destroyed an Empire, Founded a Republic, and Remade the Map of Europe by Kevin J. McNamara
RRP: $29.66$24.10The pages of history recall scarcely any parallel episode at once so romantic in character and so extensive in scale." ,Winston S. ChurchillIn 1917, two empires that had dominated much of Europe and Asia teetered on the edge of the abyss, exhausted by...